How to check a macbook pro is brandnew or refurbised?

I'm in Viet Nam. I want to buy a macbookpro now but i don't know how to check a macbook pro is brandnew or refurbised. So could you show me? Thank you very much.

Before you purchase the machine, open it at the small store where you've arranged to buy it and make a note of its serial number, which will appear if you choose About This Mac from the Apple menu and click twice on the OS version number in the "About This Mac" window. If that number matches the serial number that appears on the packaging material, that's a good sign. Now open this web page on another computer in the store:
http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html
Enter the serial number of the MB Pro into that web page to obtain information about its date of production, among other things.

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I select update, because it looks legit, and why not update the whole computer when I'm taking the time to update iTunes? So the 15-20 minute installation estimation time turns into 2 hours (I think that it said that there was 2GB of update, but not sure.).
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